Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1901 — The Term Gardener. [ARTICLE]

The Term Gardener.

The term gardener implied much more a few generations ago than it does to-day. Young men paid heavy premiums to get in as apprentices under learned gardeners, and when at the end of the term they were invested with the “Blue most of them would compare favorably, in general intelligence, with the graduates of our modern universities.—Mehan’e Monthly.